you've got. call the number on your screen. 877-225-8587. that's all the time we have left. thanks for being with us. see you tomorrow night. >> bill: "the o'reilly factor" is on tonight. >> what this has everything to do with is a massive shift of wealth from working people, middle income people, to the very richest people in the country. >> bill: a classic brawl between liberals and conservatives over obamacare.. propaganda is flying. but what does it all mean to you? "talking points" on the case. >> if you look at it with intention, to demonize russia, you would see that you are trying to interfere in hillary's activities. >> bill: a spokesman for vladimir putin says the clinton campaign was in touch with russia before the vote. wow. we'll tell you what happened there. >> do you like your health care? >> yes. >> i think i have it right. is that obamacare? l [laughter]

>> bill: also, watters asking the folks what they know about their health care. >> probably 90% of americans don't know. >> bill: caution, you are aboutt to enter the "no spin zone." "the factor" begins right now. ♪ >> bill: hi, i am bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. how the obamacare brawl affects you. that is the subject of this evening's "talking points" memo. classic left-right brawl. president obama and theg' democrats wanted to provide health care to americans who could not or would not pay for it. republican party and president trump don't want to dn that. so, the battle lines are drawn. here are the facts. 81% of all americans who signed up for the obamacare health plan will receive government assistance of some kind this year. some will have their entire health care premium paid for by the federal government.

that cost american taxpayers more than $100 billion last year alone. that is the essence of obamacare, that all americans are forced to buy health insurance, so, the have-nots can be subsidized and covered by the haves. it is estimated by that since obamacare passed, 13 million people have health insurance who did not have it before. enter president trump, who says that obamacare costs are way too high and the program is a disaster in every way. so, the republicans will put forward a new national health care plan. this one will not order you to buy health insurance. if you don't buy it, your option is to go to the emergency room and get treated. if you can take over the taxpayer picks it up just like the old days. t if you cannot afford health insurance premiums, theks republicans want the states to handle it through medicaid. president trump and his acolytes essentially want out of the health care business and will

send federal money to the individual states, so, they can decide who gets what. but the medicaid tax dollars will be capped. liberals hate that. they hate it. they want the feds to dictate health insurance costs and who gets free or subsidized insurance. so that is essentially where we are. the key question for you, the american citizen, is will your health care premiums go up or down once obamacare is history? today, the congressional budget office said that under the republican plan, the feds woulda spend about $337 billion less subsidizing health care over the next ten years. but about 21 million more americans will not have health insurance by the year 2020. again, that would most likely be their own choice, not to have insurance. the cbo does not know what might happen if the insurance

companies are allowed to compete nationwide, which they cannot da now. will that drive premiums down? that is the hope on the trump side. but not on the left. >> this really has nothing to do with health care. what this has everything to. do with is a massive shift of wealth from working people, and middle income people, to the very richest people of this country. it is a $275 billion tax break for the top 2%. >> bill: senator sanders is angry because the republican health care plan knocks out and obamacare payroll tax, 0.9%. and a tax on investment income. sanders saying, that gives money to rich people. and that is always the argument from the left. any tax breaks, especially on investment income, sales of stocks, interest, that kind of thing, helps the wealthy. but the trump administration

has promised to lower taxes on the health care plan does that. it is simply impossible for you, the american consumer, to know how this will all turn out. e as they say on the west coast, it is complicated. summing up, liberals want a big entitlement culture. some uber conservatives want few, if any, entitlements. more moderate republicans f want states to handle the entitlements with limits. there you have h it. that is the memo. now, for the top story reaction, joining us from washington, senator lindsey graham. where do you come down on this, senator graham? >> that is pretty good, actually. you left out one thing. republicans have a refundable tax credit to help low income people buy health care that are not covered by medicaid. here's where i come down on this. obamacare is a disaster. in my state in 2014, there were five health care companies providing health care through the exchanges, we are down to one.es there is a 27% increase in premiums this year and the one

may leave. >> bill: why did the others bail? why did the four bail in south carolina that were operating inle 2014? >> because the mandates required them to cover people and they couldn't collect enough money. they weren't making money, they weren't -- to president trump, don't take a bad idea. -- bad deal. you are a great negotiator. if you can find a better way, using republicans alone to replace obamacare, do it. but if you can't find a bill that you think helps america, not just the republican party, walk away, mr. president, let it collapse, and will. then, challenge the democratic party -- >> bill: you guys should be able -- i'm not saying this with any partisan feeling at all -- you should be able to do it. there are two reasons why. the first one is, that competition level. you get the little gecko lizard and the other people and they all come up with their own programs to sell anywhere in

this country. that is going to drive premiums for the working americanss down, it has to. there is more competitions. i don't want to go with this insurance company, state farm, i'm going with allstate, i'm going with the lizard. this is a big, big country. >> absolutely. >> bill: this is number one. number two, as you pointed out, there are, for the poor and thei disinterested, safety nets. so you can, if you earn very little money, write off almost all of your federal taxes. if you buy health care insurance. you won't have to pay any taxesl just buy your health insurance. but that still isn't going to mean that ne'er-do-wells and people who are apathetic or too stupid are going to buy it and they won't. they won't.pa that is with the cbo said today. you will have a rise in the uninsured. in our capitalist society, you have to protect yourself. it is not a nanny state. sanders wants the nanny state,

does he not? >> yes, he does. the goal of obamacare was to destroy the private sector so everybody needed to be under government control, so, making it so expensive companies would drop coverage and pay the fines in these exchanges would be run by the government. they are trying to go through s the back door where they couldn't do through the front door, the single player plan. what i'm trying to do is what you said. the problem under reconciliation, bill, we can't do the cross state line purchases. we'd have to get 60 votes. here's what i would suggest. look at the cbo report as a blinking, warning light. obama ran through every stop sign and every warning light to get to where he wanted to go. all i'm asking is, slow down, absorb this report, and remember, we are going to own what we do here for the rest of our political lives. donald trump is the best dealmaker i have ever seen. if i were him, i would not take the deal unless he thought it t was a good deal. >> bill: what, i don'tt know

what he is going to do. he is having rallies, i'm sure this'll be the focus of them. trying to whip up public support.al it is interesting that you can't get the insurance mandate to compete unless you get 60 votes in the senate. there are a lot of democratic senators who are up for reelection and boy, if they knock that down, it is not going to be good on their sheet. while i have you here, you're investigating the assertion made by president trump that president obama had something to do with wiretapping. today, they walked it back, spicer did, said he wasn't. talking about the president himself, it was a general thing. we know that flynn was wiretapped and most likely in trump tower, coming up behind you is dennis kucinich, former congressman who was wiretapped. how do you see this thing? >> i think i owe it to the people of the united states, your viewers, to let you know whether or not there was a warrant issued against the trump campaign or trump tower by a lawful authority. i have written the fbi and the department of justice and i want them to provide to me, myut committee, any evidence of a

warrant. if there is a warrant, then, we will solve this problem, there wasvi no wiretapping. if flynn ran into the russian ambassador, was being followed because he is a foreign agent,, that is different than having an fbi or a fisa warrant on the trump people. i don't know if that happened. but we all need to know whether a warrant was issued against th trump campaign. i promise you, i will get to it. as to health care, i don't want to take a vacation inin august unless we get this fixed. i want the people who watch this program and everybody in the nation to know, whether or not the trump campaign was w wiretapped by anybody. >> bill: we appreciate it, senator. when you get it, please let us know. >> you'll be the first. >> bill: next on "the rundown," a democrat will reply to this discussion. then, former congressman dennis kucinich has said his congressional office in washington was tapped. he'll comment on the trump-obama fiasco up ahead. bama fiasco up ahead.

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with trulicity, i click to activate what's within me. if you want help improving your a1c and blood sugar numbers with a non-insulin option click to activate your within. ask your doctor about once-weekly trulicity. >> bill: continuing with the lead story, how does obamacare affect you? joining us from chicago, dr. austan goolsbee, former economic advisor under president obama. you heard me bloviate and you heard the senator, and you say? >> all i would say is, you can have whatever complaints you want about obamacare. we can discuss the details, i. would be happy to do that. but the trumpcare that they are outlining here is clearly and demonstrably worse for millions of americans. and everybody is going to know that. by the time they vote on this bill, they are going to know that 24 million people lose their insurance.o how much their prices will go

up. >> bill: that's true but you have to put it in the context of, it will be worse for the people who don't take the time to get the safety net or use the safety net that is being provided. so that is really the essence of the debate. >> i don't know if i agree with that. >> bill: wait a minute. say you are making $30,000 a year, no longer are they going to get direct payments from the federal government to buy their health insurance. they are going to have to go and write off, you know, a pretty good chunk of their salary, which they will get back. >> but they'll have that -- >> bill: or, and/or, go to their individual state, apply to medicaid, and get on that program. so there is nobody is not going to be able to do those -- >> no, bill, look. you are busy, you have to cover every issue, i understand why you would not have gone through the details of what the

congressional budget office put out here. but it does not verify what you just said at all. if you make $30,000 a year, it shows the amount that you are going to pay out of pocket if you are out on the individual market is some $10,000 a year or more. >> bill: but that is before the health care deduction. the cbo, which by the way, wildly missed the obamacare predictions, they didn't even take into account what would happen if the pinheads in washington could ever pass the insurance companies competing. they didn't take that intoou account. it would drive down premiums for all -- >> is this your thing about crossing the state lines? >> bill: yeah. the cbo didn't even take that -s >> the congressional budget office concerns things in the s budget. it has never evaluated --

>> bill: exactly. you can't go on their stats -- >> you can't criticize the cbo for not -- >> bill: i'm not. i am reporting. they didn't even factor in -- here's the bottom line. most americans didn't like obamacare, which is why trump ih sitting in the white house. >> they're going to make -- like trumpcare worse. if i promised you a diamond engagement ring and then i give you something, you are like, wait a minute, this looks like tinfoil, what is thisnt thing, believe me, you would notice. >> bill: you are hoping and projecting that will happen. >> i'm not hoping. i'm hoping t not. >> bill: it will be a fiasco if these health care premiums don't come down. if the folks don't start paying less, the republicans will lose next time around. okay? l it is all about the dollars in the wallet, okay? that is what is it about.

it is not about bernie sanders saying, hey, we have to support 30 million people by giving them free health insurance. americans have rejected that! >> i am not arguing about that. what i'm arguing, number one, this is a clear, direct violation of one of the principal campaignum promises donald trump made. he specifically said in the campaign that he would never cut medicare or medicaid. this is an $800 billion cut to medicaid.ca it's just a direct violation of his campaign promise. >> bill: it's a cap, not a cut. it's a cap, not a cut. >> you know costs are rising. >> bill: you can't do that much. you have to look at what the reality of the budget is. i'm not going -- all right, you are hoping it doesn't work, i am hoping it does work. >> all i want -- >> bill: i just want people to have more money in their pockets. lastst word. >> so do i.

that is why we agree. we often agree even though some of our methods disagree, we agree on what we are looking for. >> bill: we want help for the working americans. doctor, as always. watters will ask the folks to explain what they know about obamacare. don't miss this laterrs on. directly ahead, dennis kucinich says that his office was wiretapped or he talked to a foreign leader. he'll be here. later, more chaos on a college campus. this time, a scale in a gym removed. apparently, some students were terrorized by the scale. upcoming. that much do they? really? i'll take it! sir, your credit... is great, right? when was the last time you checked? yeah, i better check my credit score. here, try credit karma. it's free. alright, no more surprises. credit karma. give yourself some credit.

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>> bill: "impact segment" tonight. it seems everyone in washington it is investigating whether or not president obama was involved in wiretapping as president trump has asserted. sean spicer said he was speaking in general terms about the tap.r

not accusing barack obama of installing it. or ordering it. in 2011, dennis kucinich was talking to muammar qaddafi's son when it resident was captured on a wiretap. first of all, why were you talking to his son? >> i had a resolution in the house or try to stop the war and stop a takeover by libya by radical islamic fundamentalists. he called me and talk to me about it. i cleared the discussion with house attorneys. >> bill: all right, you were on the phone with qaddafi, andea you don't know you are being tapped. did you think, look, muammar qaddafi's son, probably the end -- the nsa has got a wire on him wherever he goes, does that go through your mind? >> of course. except for one thing. congress is not supposed to be

listened to by the executive branch, it is called separation of powers, the protocol is, as soon as they know that a member of congress is on the line, they are supposed to discontinue it. what i found out, bill --- >> bill: any tap in congress, the senate or the house, is illegal.l. >> by nature of a tap, yes. unless they are working on the criminal case, that is not what this was. what i have here, bill, intel was tracking my resolutions. here's a couple redacted pages that it was able to get. i have had nothing about the wiretap itself. but they were tracking this resolution. so, you have to ask, what was their appropriate role in redacting a resolution they are tracking? >> bill: who is they? >> this is the dni. the director of national intelligence. >> bill: the director of national intelligence under president obama, the president, president obama had to know about it, so, they are listening to you talk to qaddafi because they want to know what qaddafi

is saying because not the y united states, but a coalition, is going to go in soon and kill his father and remove them from power. that is what they wanted to know, right? >> you would assume that is what they want to know. but on the other hand, why were they listening to my end of then conversation and a tape was made and played for me by two investigative reporters of "the washington times" two yeard after i left congress? >> bill: you didn't know forf two years of this happened? >> i heard the audio tape, bill, and i said, wait a minute -- >> bill: two years after this happened, after you are out of congress, two reporters play you this tape, there is the whole thing. you are not cut out of it, they are supposed to do that, and you heard the whole thing. >> i heard the whole thing. it happened actually two years after i left congress is where i had sat down with reporters and they played this for me. you know, look, benghazi, you talk about benghazi and libya,

such a disaster, the al qaeda flag was flying over the capital in a war that i tried to stop and why were they listening to my conversation? they wanted to find a way to strategize, to defeat the resolution that i had that woulo have -- stopped the war. the administration. >> bill: the obama administration wanted to derail your efforts to keep the usa from participating in the demise of qaddafi. all right. that is your take on it. so, you want more information, but a lot of that is redacted, you would like to see the whole thing, right? >> absolutely.y. >> bill: you have to go to judicial watch, that is one who can get you that. then, when you heard about trump saying that president obamas tapped the trump tower, what went through your mind? >> i heard a lot of people laughing about it and i said, wait a minute. i had something happen to me, i have never talked about it before, but i thought, this isis the time to explain to people that if a member of congress can

have his phone tapped, on a policy matter, hey, this could happen to anybody.y. >> bill: certainly, flynn was tapped for the russian ambassador. we are pretty convinced that it was in the trump tower. dennis, we are glad you are not in prison and we are glad to qaddafis didn't get you. keep us posted if you have any more inputs. plenty ahead as "the factor" moves along. now, they are removing scales from college campuses because some students say they are triggers. unbelievable. and watters talking to the folks about health care. >> do you ladies have health t insurance? [laughter] because i've got to go. >> bill: watters often gets that reaction. we hope you stay tuned for those reports. and here's to the heroes behind the heroes, who use their expertise to keep those businesses covered. and here's to the heroes behind the heroes behind the heroes,

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they don't understand. they think eating disorders are a choice when they are actually a serious illness." so this scale is gone. joining us now from boston, mary anne marsh, and from washington, katie pavlich. katie, do you know what the definition of triggering is? >> i do know what the definition of triggering as. i looked it up in the dictionary, triggering happens when someone reads, sees, or hears something that causes a person emotional distress, typically around a previous traumatic experience. but the word triggering as used on college campus, apparently in canada and in the united states, to ban things that people simply don't like or that they don't agree with, really, i think that using trigger warnings or using triggering as an excuse is just a way to shirk the responsibility. >> bill: a way tous shut down stuff you don't like. this entire program, mary anne, is a trigger.

it should be "the triggering factor." >> always. >> bill: now the scale is gone at carleton university. and you say? >> you can always put this part in the paperback edition. i think it coincides seemingly with a growing intolerance that many people have about a lot of things. rather than dealing with the circumstances and the facts, they choose to change the facts and change of circumstances. as a result, it undermines our c society, it underminesng democracy, it undermines our discourse. it divides us further and further. so, there is less common ground and less ability to compromise or deal with anybody or anything at any time. t >> that was amazing. >> bill: let me just simplify it.t it's just stupid. it's stupid. you go to the gym, you want to weigh yourself, see how you are doing, you can't. why? because that scale has offended, someone and that scale is out of there! >> yeah. >> bill: think about it.

just think about how insane our pc culture, katie, has become. >> it is very difficult to think about it. i as you said, it is very stupid. i just wish i had said everything mary anne said. and it's very true about how,, this further divides us. quite frankly, it makes our society weaker. you don't get stronger or empowered by having challenges taken away from you in life. you get stronger by overcoming those challenges. this idea that having a scale in an athletic department isth somehow a big problem just proves that these students have first world problems that have real problems to overcome in their lives.pr go to -- travel, go to a foreign country, go to a third world country, see what they have to deal with. come back, i don't think you have the same feelings about the scale and the athletic department. >> bill: i smashed my scale at home.nt i don't want anyone coming intoi my house, triggering anything. so i will give mary anne the last word because i am sure she has thoughts about doing the same thing.

>> i have two thoughts. one, it doesn't prepare students for the world outside ofhi college, which can be a cocoon. but i also think you are seeing this seep into society in other ways, where people are nown. talking about alternative facts and fake news and undermining institutional information. i think that is very dangerous.t >> bill: the real world is gone. but "old school" is going to bring it back. >> it is going to bring it back. >> thank god. >> bill: when we come back, brit hume on putin's spokesman saying that russia was in touch with the clinton campaign. then watters on the health care fiasco. moments away. w my insurance rates are probably gonna double. but dad, you've got... ...allstate. with accident forgiveness they guarantee your rates won't go up just because of an accident.

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>> announcer: "the o'reilly factor," the number one cable news show for 16 years and counting. >> bill: thanks for staying with us. i am bill o'reilly. and this week's segment, tonight, the left has been trying to prove that the trump campaign colluded with the russian government. >> did the russian government have any collaboration or serious communication back and forth with donald trump campaign during the election campaign last year? >> the answer is very simple. no. the fact that russia is being demonized in that sense comes very strange to us. >> bill: that man, dmitry

peskov, the personal spokesman for putin. take that into account. he went on to say that the russian ambassador, sergey kislyak, had conversations with the clinton campaign. >> if you look at some people connected with hillary clinton, during her campaign you would probably see that he had lots of meetings of that kind. but there were no meetings about electoral process. >> bill: inexplicably, the cnn commentator, mr. zakaria, did not even ask mr. peskov who in the clinton campaign talked with russian ambassador. that is pretty stunning. joining us from florida, brit hume. first of all, do you believe anything the russians say, brit? >> i think whatever they say and whatever a spokesman for vladimir putin says it should be

taken with a considerable measure of skepticism. on the other hand, when he said that about people associated with the clinton campaign, talking to the russian ambassador, it certainly would be worth a follow-up to see who that might've been. if you step back from his interview, what it all adds up to, what we have known all along, although, some refuse to admit it. for all the talk about there being collusion with the trump campaign, there simply isn't any firm evidence that that is the case. you can say that there's not any evidence at all. there are suspicions, there are hunches, there are theories, but no real evidence. >> bill: i am not willing to take anything that the russians say as even remotely truthful. i think they are up to what they usually do, mischief. i think he dropped that line, oh, the clinton campaign, they talked with the russian ambassador -- both hume and i

have been in the business too long. we really should retire, both of us. because we are so cynical. it's true, hume admit it. we should be out of here. we are so cynical. >> [laughs] >> bill: we know that when fareed zakaria heard that, and his mind, he is going, holy, you know what. i can't have this be the headline because i hate trump. the guy hates trump. and that is why he didn't ask it. a 5-year-old would have said, well, who was talking to them, you know? [laughs] >> i agree with that. i think another point that is worth introducing here, bill, the fact of the russian ambassador is a man about town in washington. for as long as i have been there covering news, you see the russian ambassador at all kinds of places. i sat next to him at dinner one night. they are always jovial and approachable and friendly.

that doesn't mean that they are serving a great cause. but all kinds of people, of all persuasions, run into the guy and meet with him. it happens all the time. it is completely ordinary. >> bill: and they were messing with the u.s. election, so, they were going to cultivate -- >> or trying to. >> bill: they were trying to -- mischief is the word. did you see the "60 minutes" thing last night leslie stahl did about the putin people that got poisoned and hit in the head and they are in a coffin? it was -- >> all of which reinforces the point that vladimir putin is not a good guy. >> bill: [laughs] no. it was pretty interesting to just watch one after another after the other. that is why i posed the question to the president. but there is nothing we can dohe about it. here's my final question. all of these liberal americans who don't like donald trump, think he was elected illegitimately, think putin did whatever putin did, do they get

their money back from watching all of these cable shows come night in an night out, every segment is "they did this, they did that," as you said, there is not a shred of evidence, after all this time, to back up anything that these cable programs are saying. >> bill, i think you are entirely right about that.he i thought that for a long time. i would say this. considering how little evidence there is, no evidence, they have managed to get a pretty good run out of it. not only on the cable shows come over they have gotten the over they have gotten the attorney general recusing himself from the investigation into the russian role in the election. you have the investigating committees now on both sides of capitol hill are looking into it. it is a never-ending stream, as you say, of questions and discussions -- today, and the white house briefing, mr. trump is highly ill-advised, suggesting he was being wiretapped by the president,

which is sort of an outgrowth of all of this, that has created a big stir. so the beat goes on. >> bill: it does. brit hume, everybody. watters on deck.so obamacare, very confusing,l: as you know. we wanted to find out how much a you guys really know about it. watters is next. about it. watters is next.

>> bill: "back of the book" segment, your health care. as we reported in "talking points," it's a very confusing situation and propaganda is all over the place. so, we sent watters out to ask the folks what they know. ♪ >> do you ladies have health insurance? [laughter]

>> i got to go. [laughter] >> snap out of it. >> do you like your health care? >> yeah. >> no. >> why not? >> it is really confusing. >> i love it. >> it is satisfying. >> it's satisfying? >> i think i have it, right? is that obamacare? >> [laughs] i don't know what you have. go wait a minute. >> do you have obamacare? >> yes. >> how does obamacare were? >> how does it work? >> don't you be looking at me so cockeyed because i don't want to have to shake your head up to straighten it out. >> good question. probably 90% of america don't know. >> that is correct. >> explain to me how it works. >> you put in the amount youed make per month, the family you are covering, then, they give you options that make sense for what you are able to pay per month. >> you enroll and you see what kind of package you get ordeal. >> i don't call it obamacare. i call it the affordable care act. and my understanding is --

>> even though it is not affordable? >> you can compare that to welfare. when you don't have money, welfare is there to help you. >> so, it is like health care welfare? >> yes. i like that. >> thank you for your cooperation. >> do you think obamacare is doing well? >> for myself, yes. there are conditions that i have that need to be covered. >> i think it is just something that should be affordable to everyone but by the end of the day, we have to pay a lot of money that they don't have. >> you are not allowed to say, at the end of the day. that is a band phrase. [laughs] >> i need obamacare. >> trump is going to come in and repeal and replace obamacare.if do you think it is a good idea? >> no. i think it will be worse than how it is now. >> it is one thing to say, hey,w there is a policy or bill we didn't agree with, another to have a bunch of malarkey about how you will repeal it.ee b >> trump will repeal and replace obamacare. is that a good idea? t >> i think the people that have it should be able to keep it.

>> if you like your health care plan, you can keep it? >> that is the way i think it should work. >> i have heard that before. >> where did you come up with that? >> i have no idea where i came up with that. >> trump's plan, how does that work?ea >> what i have read about it, there are more tax incentives. >> it will go well for the top 1% of the population. >> how does trump's health care plan work? >> i have no idea. i think few people do.>> >> democrats are saying trumpcare will be so bad, why should we believe them when they said obamacare was so good? >> you don't get it all right from the outset. you have to work on it for years and years and years. ♪ >> what is this, raccoon? >> yeah. i didn't catch it myself. >> i have seen worse. >> is this goose? >> red fox. >> i am coming to georgia, honey! >> do you know who i am? >> here we go again. >> i am watters, i am watters, i'm watters, this is my world.

>> oh.at >> oh! >> you truly scare me. >> bill: they are in the subway wearing a raccoon -- >> yeah, 21 degrees today. i had to find shelter in the subway. >> bill: that guy looked like he was from alaska. actually, he knew a little bit. most people had no idea. >> who would've thought the guy in the fur knew anything aboutut obamacare.it most people don't know anything, i don't understand trumpcare, either.ab >> bill: i'm sure you will after tonight's program when you study the "talking points." >> yes. i will study it diligently. >> bill: that tells you what it is all about.po it comes down to how much they will charge you for this care. >> you had lots of staff telling you. i had to find it out myself. >> bill: you don't have any staff. watters has no staff. no one will work with him. every time you work with him, he goes, "do you know who i am." you don't have to do this. >> no one likes it when i do that.

>> bill: you frighten those people out there. except for a couple of them. you are heading down to interview president trump. >> that is a possibility. >> bill: ask him if he likes obamacare. >> i will. [laughter] >> bill: all right, watters, good luck with it. "the factor" tip of the day,y, snow hysteria. "the tip," moments away. safe drivers who switch to esurance could save money on car insurance. in fact, safe drivers who switch from geico to esurance could save hundreds. so if you switch to esurance, saving is a pretty safe bet. auto and home insurance for the modern world. esurance. an allstate company. click or call.

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a farmer's market.ve what's in this kiester. my dad's company wasn't hacked today. a fire truck. even a marching band. and if i can get comfortable talking about this kiester, then you can get comfortable using preparation h. for any sort of discomfort in yours. preparation h. get comfortable with it. >> bill: >> bill: factor "tip of the day." t we may not be here tomorrow night because everyone may die in a snowstorm. but first, the mail. that is the job of government. that is why school is mandatory. general welfare.

not true, steve. courts have incarcerated journalists. only if laws are broken in the process. bernie was generalizing about some rabid trump supporters. are either. he was not talking about everyone, bernie was not.

i said i find it hard to feel sorry for them because the danger is so widely known. it reminds me of a time in northern australia when i approached a river. there was a huge sign saying crocs are in the water. it even had a little picture of a croc with his mouth open. if i dived in that water, when you feel sorry for me if i got swallowed? there comes a point when people have to protect themselves from harm and if they do not, bad things are going to happen. here is what is amazing. that you would hear me say i want to hire that girl on the

air and see watters give her a high five. and you still wrote that email. that is what is amazing. good decisions, harry truman had to make -- dwarfed with what our 's politicians today are dealing with. finally, tonight. the factor "tip of the day." snow-mageddon, heading towards the northeast. those that live in the rocky mountain region laugh at a foot of snow. you mock it because that can happen in may. but tomorrow here in new york city, up and down the east coast could be more than a foot of snow. panic is on. people are buying entire

cows to make sure they have enough meat. 18 flash drives.ri canned soup that will last for 80 years. you get the idea. the weather forecasters are hysterical, many of them breaking down. already many schools are closed. people have been seen weeping. so here is the "tip of the day." overreaction is never a good thing. if it snows tomorrow, good. build a snowman. have some fun. it has nothing to do with global warming and if you have mittens, you will be fine. that is it for us tonight., please check out the fox factor web site, different from billoreilly.com. we would like you to spout out about "the factor" from anywhere in the world. word of the day is aspersion. i will be here tomorrow. if it snows 18 feet, i will be here. snow will not stop me. i okay? we will do a live show. looking out the window, we will

point out that there is snow on the ground. again, thank you for watching ut tonight. i am bill o'reilly, please remember the spin stops here. we are definitely looking out for you.. >> tucker: good evening and welcome to "tucker carlson tonight." despite a total lack of evidence, people continue to suggest the presidential campaign was co-opted by the government of vladimir putin. in lieu of actual proof, those pushing those theories have relyed on innuendos. evidence of a grand conspiracy. a hit on some sort when a spokesman claimed that hillary clinton's presidential campaign also met with the russian government multiple times. >> well, if you look at some people connected with hillary clinton, during